Fantasy Idol Results- Checked Out

Blah, blah, blah. Siobhan is out. Aaron Kelly was not bottom three? Larry is running away with the fantasy title. Adam Lambert, Jason Castro and Blake Lewis aren't walking through that door. I've checked out on this show.

Fantasy Scores

The Rock Bodega
Casey James- Bottom 3 (-10), Safe (46)= 36
Janell Wheeler
Tim Urban
Lee DeWyze- Safe (46)= 46
Week 10= 82 Total= 371

You're Coming With Me Leather
Andrew Garcia
Paige Miles
Aaron Kelly- Safe (46)= 46
John Park
Week 10= 46 Total= 183

Splash Downs All Around
Todrick Hall
Crystal Bowersox- Safe (46)= 46
Tyler Grady
Michelle Delamor
Week 10= 46 Total= 167

Diabolical Haters
Didi Benami
Lilly Scott
Lacey Brown
Michael Lynche- Bottom 3 (-10), Safe (46)= 36
Week 10= 36 Total= 149

The Curlgar
Ashley Rodriguez
Joe Muñoz
Haley Vaughn
Siobhan Magnus- Bottom 3 (-10), Eliminated (-20)= -30
Week 10= -30 Total= 92

HashTag Katie Stevens Is Only 16
Katie Stevens
Jermaine Sellers
Katelyn Epperly
Alex Lambert
Total= 19

American Idol- Cry, Cry, Crystal

Simon Cowell- "This may have been a step too high this week, in terms of actually believing in the perormance...having said that, you have improved over the weeks."

It seems that Simon decided to pay a bit of homage to Larry David after new broke today that Curb Your Enthusiasm will return for an eighth season in 2011. Nice work Simon. Other notes on the judges: Kara needs to stop using metaphors. Ellen is getting better since she started coming up with jokes before the show starts. I don't think Randy knows a single thing about music.

Tonight was inspirational songs week, and unlike the judges and many others, I'm not going to goo and gush over how moving Crystal Bowersox's performance was. Her People Get Ready was the best of the night sure, but is that saying much? There are only two other contestants that should make a normal season's top 24. MamaSox starting acapella was quite a moment but what was absolutely shocking to me was that she cried during her performance! The funny thing is that if a lesser contestant would have done that, they would've been killed for it. Since Boxershorts is the only commodity Idol has right now, she was commended for it. Brilliant.

The other two that deserve to make an Idol semifinals. Lee DeWyze and Siobhan Magnus both had good performances tonight. Seriously how much better would Simon and DeWyze been than Simon and Garfunkel. Garfunkel might not have been able to cover Sam Cooke during the third season of Saturday Night Live, but Lee sure as heck could cover Garfunkel here. Was I the only one surprised that the judges killed Siobhan's When You Believe? I thought she killed it without throwing in a ridiculous scream and the falsetto was pumpin'. Why do they always let Siobhan babble after her performance. This is the main reason for going over the alotted time every week.

Everyone else was bad. Casey James was better than last week if only because the vibrato died down. He seems to run out of breath while standing still, which is never a good thing. Tim Urban, for the first time in a couple of weeks, was completely over powered by this Goo Goo Dolls song. Aaron Kelly. Oh boy. I'm so tired of talking about how much I hate him. I think JJ said it best when he tweeted "my performance of I Believe I Can Fly at Pleasure Island was better than Aaron Kelly's", but that may have been 'cause he took his shirt off. For the first time ever, Michael 'Will Kieffer' Lynche had a bunch of bum notes. That combined with his corniness will get him knocked out of the competition this week.

My Performance Rankings

1. Crystal Bowersox
2. Lee DeWyze
3. Siobhan Magnus
4. Casey James
5. Tim Urban
6. Michael Lynche
7. Aaron Kelly

American Idol- Rolling Stones Gather No Votes

Crystal Bowersox- "I haven't thought that I had the competition at all...but thank you for saying it."

It is very weird to watch the last two performances of an episode of Idol and then go back to watch the first ten, but that's what I had to do tonight after coming home at 9:40.

Well Ellen was on her game tonight. As Pops pointed out to me, someone must have told her that if she didn't start being funny she was gonna get canned. That's not to say that she was laugh out loud, knee slapping hilarious tonight, but her witty comments were definitely an improvement on her awkward commentary during the semifinals.

Now let's get my favorite out of the way first so we can move onto the contestants that both me and Slezak are not biased in favor of. Crystal Bowersox absolutely killed it once again, this time changing You Can't Always Get What You Want to fit her style perfectly. Her little riffs, especially the talking piece in the middle, were great. She can do so many different thing vocally that it seems like she has been at the top of the charts for years.

Then we have the other three that were good tonight.

Didi Benami might have the best sound to her voice in the competition. Although her performance of Play With Fire wasn't out of the box vocally, she showed decent power and had great tone throughout. The anger she produced on her face as "Don't play with me" came out of her mouth was truly fantastic to see.

Lee DeWyze might continue to be David Cook Light, but I really don't care. I loved Cook's voice and I love Lee's. He changed Beast of Burden simply by putting his raspy voice on it and he did a great job with it.

While Siobhan Magnus's glory note was completely off tune and screechy at the end of Paint It Black, the final falsetto moment made up for it. Her vocal skill is definitely there, but tonight was not nearly as good as last week, I don't care what the judges tell me. Having said that, she gets the okay from me if only for letting us know that Cape Cod is "divided into towns."

Honestly I thought the rest were pretty bad. If I had to pick one to go home based on tonight it would be Lacey Brown. Her baby doll voice is losing its luster and her off tune singing is shining through. The worst part of her take on Ruby Tuesday was the way she changed such a great part of the song. When she sped up "still I'm gonna miss you" it killed me because it's such a great moment in the original song.

The rest of my bottom four would consist of Aaron Kelly, Casey James and Andrew Garcia. Aaron's place mostly has to do with my hatred for him, because I thought his Angie was serviceable tonight. Casey and Andrew on the other hand just blew up there. Casey obviously shouldn't do fast songs or use the electric guitar and his voice doesn't have the power or range to go far in this competition. Garcia, meanwhile, just obliterated Gimme Shelter. I was literally laughing during the entire performance at his attempt at the song. Strap the guitar back on and try to sing Straight Up every week buddy.

Michael Lynch, Paige Miles, Katie Stevens and Tim Urban were okay in my book this week. Lynch showed he obviously skills during Miss You, even if his confidence is turning into unbearable undeserved cockiness. Paige was way better than any of her other performances with Honky Tonk Woman, even if she is as bland as Lil Rounds. Katie finally picked a great song to showcase her big voice, but still didn't do much else with Wild Horses. Urban decided to dial back Under My Thumb into a reggae song which allowed him to not murder himself like he did with Apologize a few weeks ago. It was a weird choice but not a horrendous vocal so good decision.

American Idol- Mags's Cousin and MamaSox Lead the Way

For the Simon-proclaimed year of the girls, not a single chick left me that excited after the first live show. There were definitely some that were good, but there were also some that were just okay and a couple that were flat out bad last night.

Let's start with what may be my weekly Kara rant. Both Pops and I realized last night that it isn't even the ridiculous things that she says night in and night out that annoy me anymore. In fact it doesn't matter what the words are that come out of her mouth, it's how she says them. No matter what she says, I want to slap her in the face as soon as she begins to speak.

Ellen, who I enjoyed during Hollywood week's edited segments, didn't fare as well in her inaugural live show. She seemed nervous with the first couple of contestants and didn't have many great comments throughout the entire show. Her highlight was explaining that Katelyn Epperly was "interesting to me. It made me wanna pay attention to you." That's the type of armchair judging I was expecting from her. She doesn't have a musical background but she still can have reasons for why someone did well or not. Ellen just didn't do enough of that last night, but I'm sure she'll get better (unlike Kara who has gotten worse and worse every week).

Now on to the contestants that failed to wow me last night.

Let's begin with the two that I think should be going home after last night's performances. Haeley Vaughn, or Lips, was absolutely the worst one of the night. She screeched through the entire minute and a half of I Wanna Hold Your Hand. I loved the risk of changing up a Beatles tune, but that risk did not pay off in this case. Lacey Brown's Landslide was not much better. As it started I got excited because it's such a great song, but then she started singing and it was all downhill from there. When Ryan asked her why she chose that song she explained that she liked it and then talked about what the song meant. Once again people, these are not good reasons for choosing a song to perform on Idol.

Then we get to the hodgepodge of middling contestants that did nothing to shine more than the rest, but when all is said and done should stick around for another week. On the lower end of that spectrum we had Paige Miles, Ashley Rodriguez, Janell Wheeler and Katelyn Epperly. Of the four, Epperly was the only one that showed potential for a decent run later on in the season. The other three all picked big songs and couldn't deliver a less than boring performance.

The three okay contestants that put forth quality performances were Michelle Delamor, Didi Benami and Katie Stevens. Delamor showed the ability to use both power and tenderness in her rendition of Fallin', while Didi's underwhelming performance still had the ability to leave me wanting more. KS of the CT pulled the risky move of taking on Feelin' Good less than a year since Adam Lambert killed it. Although her performance was just about half as good as Ms. Lambert's, half as good as him is still strides better than most of these jokers.

Not sure my feelings will probably flip after next week's performances, but these are my three front-runners after last night. Lilly Scott, Siobhan Magnus and Crystal Bowersox. Lilly had the advantage of going directly after three contestants that failed to step up to the plate. Even though I had never heard Fixing A Hole before, I could tell that her rendition had to be different than the way the Beatles did it. Either way...she had a very interesting sound, and just like JJ has an interesting look. This performance felt extremely comfortable and terribly current. Very good.

Maybe it's because I imagine Nicolas Cage calling me honnay whenever I hear this song, but I thought Mags's cousin's Wicked Game was fantastic. Her ability to change from her regular voice to falsetto was great. I do not know how El Pres does it, but the man at Barstool might have done it again, only this time he picked a winner out of nowhere.

And then we have the girl that Slezak and the rest of EW.com seem to be backing at these early stages. MamaSox's vocal performance wasn't anything to write home about last night, but she absolutely showed promise for the future. Add to the mix that she played both the guitar and the harmonica extremely well, and you get quite the performer. She controlled the whole performance and kept me interested and as a bonus it seems as though she used some white strips since Hollywood Week.

Who agrees/disagrees with the Kid?